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Re: m68k xserver for woody



On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 03:34:15PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> > If it comes down to it I'll turn the building of xserver-fbdev back on,
> > just for m68k.
> 
> > But I'd really rather cheerlead, beg, plead, do whatever is necessary to
> > convince iron-jawed hackers of yore to roll up their sleeves and finish the
> > port of XF 4.0 to m68k.
> 
> Having real hardware drivers won't happen too soon, I think. But isn't
> there a module for planar framebuffers?

That's what I mean.  There is an "fbdev" server module that, as I
understand it, just dumbly blits bits to the Linux kernel framebuffer
device.

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G. Branden Robinson             |    The greatest productive force is human
Debian GNU/Linux                |    selfishness.
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